An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.

This can be the 1st textual content e-book to supply a complete method of outdated Frisian. half One starts off with a succinct survey of the background of the Frisians in the course of the center a while, their society and literary tradition. subsequent stick with chapters at the phonology, morphology, note formation and syntax of outdated Frisian. This half is concluded by means of a bankruptcy at the outdated Frisian dialects and one on difficulties in regards to the periodization of Frisian and the shut dating among (Old) Frisian and (Old) English. half contains a reader with a consultant choice of twenty-one texts with explanatory notes and a whole word list. A bibliography and a choose index whole the booklet. Written through an skilled instructor and researcher within the box, An creation to previous Frisian is a vital source for college kids and researchers of Frisian, previous English and different ‘Old’ Germanic languages and cultures, and for medievalists operating during this zone. The moment unrevised 2011 reprint of the unique variation comprises numerous corrections.

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This edited quantity brings jointly fourteen unique contributions to the on-going debate approximately what's attainable in contact-induced language switch. The authors current a few new vistas on language touch which symbolize new advancements within the field.

In the 1st a part of the amount, the focal point is on method and idea. Thomas Stolz defines the research of Romancisation procedures as a truly promising laboratory for language-contact orientated learn and theoretical paintings established thereon. The reader is educated in regards to the huge scale tasks on loanword typology within the contribution via Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical swap carried out by way of Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. Christel Stolz studies strategies of gender-assignment to mortgage nouns in German and German-based forms. The typology of mortgage verbs is the subject of the contribution by means of Søren Wichmann and Jan Wohlgemuth. within the articles by means of Wolfgang Wildgen and Klaus Zimmermann, noticeably new methods to the speculation of language touch are recommend: a dynamic version and a constructivism-based conception, respectively.
The moment a part of the quantity is devoted to extra empirically orientated stories which inspect language-contact constellations with a Romance donor language and a non-European recipient language. Spanish-Amerindian (Guaraní, Otomí, Quichua) contacts are investigated within the comparative research by way of Dik Bakker, Jorge Gómez-Rendón and Ewald Hekking. Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen talk about the impression exerted via French at the indigenous languages ofCanada. the level of the Portuguese effect at the Amazonian language Kulina is studied via Stefan Dienst. John Holm seems on the validity of the speculation that sure morphology ordinarily falls sufferer to Creolization tactics and attracts his proof often from Portuguese-based Creoles. For Austronesia, borrowings and calques from French nonetheless are an understudied phenomenon. Claire Moyse-Faurie’s contribution to this subject is hence a pioneer’s paintings. equally, Françoise Rose and Odile Renault-Lescure offer us with clean info on language touch in French Guiana. the ultimate article of this assortment by way of Mauro Tosco demonstrates that the Italianization of languages of the previous Italian colonies in East Africa is just weak.

This quantity presents the reader with new insights on all degrees of language-contact similar experiences. the quantity addresses specifically a readership that has a robust curiosity in language touch commonly and its repercussions at the phonology, grammar and lexicon of the recipient languages. specialists of Romance language touch, and experts of Amerindian languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Austronesian languages and Pidgins and Creoles will locate the quantity hugely important.

This quantity provides chosen papers from the thirty sixth LSRL convention held at Rutgers college in 2006. It includes twenty-two articles of present techniques to the learn of Romance linguistics. recognized researchers current their findings in components equivalent to of syntax and semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics.

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